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The Year of the Quiet Sun is a 1970 science fiction novel by American writer Wilson Tucker, dealing with the use of forward time travel to ascertain future political and social events. It won a retrospective John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1976. It was also nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1970, and a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1971.

Plot summary
In the summer of 1978, Brian Chaney, a demographer and biblical scholar, is approached by a woman named Kathryn van Hise. Initially assuming her to be a reporter interested in a controversial book he just published on the Dead Sea Scrolls, she informs him that she works for the federal Bureau of Standards and that she is recruiting him for a physical survey of the future via a secretly constructed "TDV" or time displacement vehicle.  When Chaney demurs, she informs him that his contract has been purchased from the think tank where he works, leaving him little choice.

The reluctant Chaney travels to a military installation south of Joliet, Illinois. There he is teamed with two diversely talented military officers, United States Air Force Major William Moresby and United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Arthur Saltus. Chaney soon finds that he shares with Saltus an attraction to Kathryn, who is their civilian liaison, but unlike Saltus, Chaney lacks the assertiveness to pursue her aggressively. Instead he focuses his attention on the project, which is soon ordered by the President of the United States to embark on their first mission, a trip two years into the future to discover whether he wins the 1980 presidential election.

The three travel to the Thursday after the election on individual trips, with first Moresby and then Saltus going first according to military seniority. Chaney, as a civilian, is the last to leave, but arrives earlier than the others due to a temporal navigation instrument error. They discover that the president, whom Chaney despises as a weak man (in fact, his name is given as "President Meeks"), wins the election in a landslide as a result of his successful handling of ongoing race riots in Chicago, and that these riots have resulted in the building of a wall down the middle of Cermak Road dividing the north of the city from the south. They also learn that the nation is under martial law after a failed attempt by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take over the government by coup d'état, one thwarted because of the advance knowledge the time travelers will bring back of it. While preparing for their return, Saltus informs Chaney of an additional discovery: a marriage license between him and Kathryn. Chaney concedes to the gloating Saltus.

With the success of the initial mission, the three are authorized to travel further into the future. They plan to travel to dates of their own choosing within the coming two decades, with each trip to be separated by approximately a year in order to provide broader coverage.

Moresby goes first and travels to July 4, 1999 ("It has significance, after all!" he says), only to emerge in the middle of a racial civil war in which Chicago had recently been attacked with a nuclear bomb launched from China on behalf of black guerrillas. Quickly getting involved in a battle between base troops and invading "ramjets", as the black guerrillas are called, Moresby dies in an attack on a ramjet mortar position.

Saltus is the next to go, traveling to the date of his 50th birthday in 2000. Upon arrival, he discovers remnants of the battle, and is nearly killed by survivors hiding out on the base. Wounded, he is assisted back to the displacement vehicle by an unknown figure and returns to the present, taking with him a tape-recorded report that Moresby had made upon his arrival.

Forewarned by Saltus's experience, Chaney travels further into the future. Not having chosen a date, and disillusioned by his experiences on the 1980 trip, he arrives at an indeterminate point in "2000-plus", by which time the power from the base's nuclear reactor has been disrupted, causing the chronometers set up for the travelers to shut down. Venturing outside, he finds the base to be long-neglected, apart from a cistern and a grave. While further investigating the grave (that of Saltus), he is approached by a young man and a woman who identify themselves as Arthur and Kathryn's children. They take Chaney to Kathryn, now elderly, who reveals that civilization collapsed as an indirect result of the time travel project; with the information from the future, the president made a series of disastrous decisions that led to war with China, followed by the civil war and societal destruction. When Chaney asks how much of this information he reports, she informs him that he reported none of it, that with the loss of power the time displacement vehicle can no longer return to the past and that Chaney is trapped in the future.

Although it is foreshadowed earlier in the book, only at this point is the reader explicitly told a fact that makes Chaney's predicament all the more tragic. He is black, the only such member of the project. "Everyone fears you; no one will trust you since the rebellion," Kathryn tells him. "I am the only one here who does not fear a black man."

Reception
In her introduction to the 1979 Gregg Press edition of the novel, writer Sandra Miesel praised the novel as "an intimate drama of Armageddon played out within the boundaries of Will County, Illinois by a cast of five principals." She noted the way Wilson linked the America of the novel and the Qumran community of ancient Palestine, which are introduced through Chaney's background as a biblical scholar who had published a book on the Dead Sea scrolls prior to the start of the novel. The parallels were made explicit through Biblical motifs that appear throughout the novel, with characters paralleling types out of the Dead Sea scrolls and such apocalyptic imagery as a radioactive Lake Michigan substituting for the lake of fire in the Book of Revelation.

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Memorandum submitted by Steve Keen
I work as a Senior Lecturer in Research within a university department of Social Work and have home educated my four children for the past 8 years. Professionally and personally I am astounded at the incompetency of Badman's review and the nature of the consultation documents. In summary, the review is flawed; the review team has been inadequate to the task; the literature review and subsequent analyses were insufficient; and the proposals, if accepted, run the grave risk of changing the current relationship between individual and state. [1]
The premise of Badman's review of flawed - conflating two issues - home education and child protection. Badman admits himself there is no evidence there is a problem with home educated children whether in respect to educational attainment or child safeguarding. [2]
However, the fundamental issue here is the relationship between the individual and the state. Ed Balls and Graham Badman see people as property of the state, who have rights given to them by the same. This is wrong in principle as s7 Education Act 1996 (repeating the Education Act 1944) states that it is the duty of the 'parent' to educate the child, whether through school or otherwise. [3]
If you look at the membership of the review team it comes as no surprise that the report has received the backlash it has. The review team contains no 'experts' on home education and no representation from relevant home education organisations. [4]
The handling of the Badman review's media release was highly questionable. The findings were leaked to the press in advance of the review's publication, without the knowledge of crucial stakeholders. Within a few days the initial selective newspaper reports, no doubt based on poor DCSF press releases, had been corrected somewhat. [5]
The questions asked in the review and subsequent consultations contain assumptions that child abuse goes on within home educated families; that child abuse is related to home education; that you are guilty until proven innocent; and that a register is the pre-requsite to solve the protection of home educated children - all of which are not based on any evidence. [6]
The proposals for mandatory registration of all home educated children, with local authorities representatives having the right to enter homes without consent and speak to children without parents being present are a gross breach of civil liberties and wholly disproportionate. [7]
My final comment relates to the literature review which disregarded much of the excellent UK research of messrs. Meighan, Thomas, Lowe and Rothermel and ignored much of the US-based work. I also suspect you will receive a barrage of first-hand evidence from home educators on how imprecise their analyses were on the numbers of home educated children classed 'at risk'. [8]

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February 16, 2019 leebutler Television
Another RuView: All Stars 4, Episode 10 (Kinda)
Well here we are, face to face, a couple of silver haired fans waiting to see just who wins the title of Americas Next Drag Race All Star and god damn I'm tired. I love this show (as the several thousand word recaps I've done will attest) but we seriously need to cut back on how many of these we do each year. With Season 11 starting on the first of March, Drag Race UK starting up at some point this year (If it's the week after Season 11 ends, I swear to god) and rumours floating around the internet about a Drag Race Legends season… it's too much of a great thing. Can All Stars stop being yearly now? We're going to run out of queens and I'm going to run out of patience with the fandom losing their minds every time one of them sends a fan favourite home or when someone who they don't like wins the competition. I'm still barely over the people reacting to Manila going home and their bullshit, now I have to deal with this… I just need a break, I'm tired. But, this tired boy has a pretend job to do and wants to talk about the final episode of the series before we have one week off before Season 11 begins because I'm taking next week off even if they do a reunion, which I don't think they're doing but they should because the best All Stars episode ever was the insane reunion of All Stars 2 and the fact they didn't take the hint to just do All Stars 2 again but with new queens is just… uggh, let's do this.
Because this is the finale, I'm removing the usual setup because it's not really important. By this point we know who the winners are before I even have a chance to start typing because the names of the winners were literally trending topics on Twitter. Now on the positive side, this episode was certainly a step up from last year's finale when they decided to throw in some random twist that made the entire season pointless. They actually joke about that very twist in the episode when they have the three previous All Star Winners return and say that they'll get to pick the winner, before going to commercial and then revealing instantly that it was all a joke. Now, I know that's a trope of reality shows but… can that trope please be thrown into the fires of hell where it belongs? Because I'm not fond of shows lying to me in order to get a small moment of drama and this show does that so often that it's gone from being a cute parody of the crap that reality shows pull to just doing it unironically. If you can't get actual drama out of drag queens in a competition without any outside influence, then there's a problem. Anyway, this time the episode played out in a very similar fashion to the All Stars 2 finale which makes it a much better sit… kind of.
The main challenge for this one felt pretty lacklustre, especially when you compare it to the one take music video from last season or the epic Read You Wrote You from All Stars 2. The song was fine, though I think Ru needs to get a better writer because these tunes aren't as exciting as some of the old ones were (I'd say she should get her old writer back but… well, I was also there while that old writer had his meltdown online so I think just getting new writers in general would work). The dance routine was fine, some good moves and I enjoyed how they worked with each of the queens and within their wheelhouse of talent to create some fun moments but if I have to compare this one to the last two music video challenges from All Stars, this one's the worst. They didn't even use the previous winners well, they gave Chad a DJ table and I'm fairly confident that wasn't used for the track. There's an audible triangle on the track and no one thought there was some natural comedy in Chad hitting a triangle enthuseastically? There's nothing in this number as genuinely iconic as Read You Wrote You and there's nothing as exciting as seeing if the queens will make it through the entire song in a single take but its fine, it's a fine finale performance for a fine finale episode. I just described the finale of a show that is known for being over the top and extravagant as 'fine', which is a word that I shouldn't be able to type when talking about an episode of this amazing show!
I feel that by this point in the review we've hit the part where people who haven't seen the episode and accidentally clicked on this have left so I can now just talk about the winners of the season. That's right, WINNERS, because for the first time in Drag Race Herstory we have a tie between Trinity The Tuck and Monet X Change, a tie that was obviously created in post production because you will notice that there are no shots in the episode that aired where they address this as a tie on camera and both queens are crowned separately. In fact, if you rewatch the episode and listen carefully you will notice the distinct change in audio quality between "inducted into the Drag Race Hall of Fame is…" and "you are both winners baby". This was doable because they crown everyone who is a possible winner and don't tell anyone the results until it airs. This has happened since season 4, thanks to Perez Hilton deciding to spoil who won season 3 while the show was on the air (not kidding, for those who don't know the series had only just finished airing the Face of Cakes episode when Perez just posted who won, that's why we have 'live' finales now) but I've never seen the show actively acknowledge that as a part of the show. If this was something they had thought about during the production you can guarantee there would be video of both queens walking that runway being played. I would love to know why no one thought to just have a tie ending prepared, just in case (since they did that in Season 6 with Bianca and Adore) but they didn't so they kind of threw a tie together because… I mean, let's be honest, Trinity had the best record but they knew they couldn't just crown a fourth white blonde queen in a row without the fanbase going insane (especially after last year when Shangela was robbed at the finish line) so they created a tie.
I'm still unsure what to think about a tie win, I don't know if I will ever have a solid opinion on that one because for some reason it feels wrong, but I do know that both queens are great and either one would've been a deserving solo winner so it's not all bad. Trinity The Tuck is a fabulous queen who went from strength to strength in both seasons and definitely deserves the recognition that she's received, and Monet X Change is possibly one of the most charming queens that will ever be put on this show and has always delivered when it came time to lip sync.
Both of them deserved the chance to win and while I kind of feel bad that they now will forever had their wins compared, at least they both get a cheque for 100K. At least they both get to increase their booking fees and got to go home with a crown on their heads because both of them are great, but a tie win is always going to be a little asterisk beside their names whenever we call them the winner of All Stars… which we will be doing for 2 weeks before we start season 11 and therefore lose any/all chance to revel in this for any length of time. This season has been pretty average, to be honest and they need time off so they can actually prepare properly.
The brilliance of All Stars 2 was that it came about 4 years after the first one, in that time about 30-40 new queens got added to the potential roster and they knew they needed to come in with a bang so they thought up some great challenges and spent enough money to really get us some great lipsyncs. All Stars 3 was good but it only took a full year break and we only gained a dozen queens… this season started in the same year the previous one finished. There was no time to prepare. The challenges were not as thought out as they could've been, there were things changed just out of desperation and we didn't have many new queens to work with (yes, I'm saying this while one of the season 10 queens has a crown on her head now, my point is still valid that there was just no time to think this out all the way). Leave this series alone till maybe 2021 or something, a year off to recharge and plan out more fun challenges and build up to get more queens because this isn't sustainable.
Saying all that, this year has had some big accomplishments and we should praise those.
I am honestly happy beyond all reason that All Stars featured the first openly trans queen to be on this version of the series. Gia Gunn may have gotten to me sometimes, but she walked into that workroom a woman from the jump and it was so great to see.
Latrice and Manilla coming back is also a huge deal, opening the door for the All Stars 1 girls to come back. I'd genuinely be happy if they had one team from that season come back every time they do an All Stars because it needs to be acknowledged just how bad that season was… and because I need another season with Tammie Brown.
In terms of challenges, the LaLaPaRUza was a great idea that I would be fine with them keeping on as the big All Stars game changer, when a shock moment happens in the middle of the season its way better than it being right at the end. Also, the roast episode was genuinely good and it's lovely to have our bi-annual reminder that Lady Bunny hasn't died yet, no matter what Bianca Del Rio has tried to do to her.
The Valentina lip sync redemption moment was amazing and will probably go down as one of the best lip syncs in the shows history. Same with Naomi Smalls pulling out that Judy Garland lip sync, these were actually fun performances and I can imagine we'll be referencing them for a fairly long time.
Stacy Layne Matthews got to come back for a bit and it's really nice seeing some of the most iconic queens from the show getting to come back… now, if you could just get her to compete we might have something here.
That's kind of it though, the things I'm going to remember from this season are those few positive changes and some minor performance moments. The rest felt like it wasn't up to the bar that we expect from All Stars, in part because All Stars 2 set a standard that the show hasn't approached since. I really wish the two queens who won the best luck in the world and I hope that they take their shared title and do something great with it… now, let's all take a nap because in about 2 weeks we do this all over again but with a new batch of queens and we need a goddamn nap.
Tagged All Stars 4, Drag Queen, Drag Race, Monet X Change, Monique Heart, Naomi Smalls, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Trinity The Tuck
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AMA with Aurora Engine Team Lead Joshua J. Bouw
On November 23 Joshua J. Bouw, Aurora Engine Team Lead, held an AMA session in Aurora Dev Telegram group (https://t.me/auroraisneardev). Here's a recap of what has been discussed, what the developer community asked, and what Joshua talked about.
Q: Let's start with an introduction. I know you have an exciting background. Please tell us about when you joined blockchain, why, what you did and how you ended up in Aurora.
A: When I joined the blockchain space, wow. Unofficially, after the Wired article about WikiLeaks accepting Bitcoin (2010?) and me figuring out what it was. Tinkering around with Bitcoin, trading it in Second Life (only place you really could do it at the time) or trading it for Diablo 2 legendaries hah!
I primarily joined it because of just an immense interest in the field. It was clear that there was something very special with the blockchain space which was unlike other fields. A lot of people at that time are not really around anymore surprisingly because they mainly liked it when the community was small.
I'm more so known primarily for kicking off the Proof of Stake revolution at Blackcoin in 2014. We had countless people cloning the project, and others have really taken it to the next level in ways that we hadn't predicted back then.
I ended up with Aurora through mutual aquaintences and my background. Arto relentlessly hounded me down until I returned his e-mail, and the rest is history.
Truth be told, I felt like a monkey discovering fire in 2010. I poked the fire with a stick and got burnt and thought I destroyed my PC with mining and didn't touch it for a few months. I'm glad that I stuck with it though.
Q: Haha yeah this does sound like an adventurous journey for you! Looking at it now what do you think about Ethereum, NEAR and blockchain in general? What future is awaiting us and why would one want to join it?
A: For the longest time I was never a large believer in account based systems, I love UTXO, though these days I will say that I do prefer account based system in NEAR. I'm also not a fan of Nakamoto-style consensus which Ethereum inherited from BTC. Ethereum understandably was an important first step in the smart contract revolution and it did take me quite a bit of time to warm up to it. But admittedly, it wasn't until after learning about NEAR and what it can do that it felt just right. And thats after looking at countless projects. NEAR really sparked excitement in me because it had well thought out and developed solutions that many other projects had been stumbling over.
The blockchain space right now is hyper crowded with a lot of projects competing for users and that will never change. It will be those that really stand out that are going to make it in the end because years of doing this, I've seen too many under-developed but well hyped projects eventually collapse in on itself. NEAR to me I believe is able to outlast any other project currently on the market apart from ETH and BTC. There is just so much more capacity on it and it truly has realised the vision of ETH 2.0.
People should join the revolution, and law makers have got to understand it. It isn't just about "making money" but its about making totally government resistant and inclusive financial systems that do not care who you are.
I believe everyone has a human right to access financial systems freely.
Q: This does explain why you eventually decided to join Aurora, although I am sure you had lots of other opportunities. I believe everyone pretty much knows that we are a NEAR spin off.
Tell us about your perspective of Aurora. I know you deal mostly with EVM. What is your work about? Do you have any challenges during the development process? What technologies, languages you employ etc.
A: My work is about leading a team to create a 1:1 EVM implementation but also taking that a step further. For example, we want users to be able to pay for gas fees in ERC-20 tokens as we have this detached relationship of what it means to be a blockchain through the relayer. Those gas fees could essentially be anything provided a relayer accepts that currency. That is a challenge, but one that we have solved and need to implement.
Obviously the number one challenge is ensuring that our work is completely on par with Ethereum. The second challenge would be to completely redefine user experience but stay faithful to the EVM. As in the example of paying gas fees in ERC-20 tokens above!
We primarily stick with Rust in the engine, we do not really see a need to use other languages and Rust pretty much can do everything from websites to video game engines.
For the technologies, Michael and I are both contributors to the rust-blockchain EVM, which is a faithful EVM that we are built upon. We have contributed numerous improvements to that including the London and Berlin hardforks which were quite a pain to work in and deliver it correctly. The Ethereum provided Json tests can fail, and it can be quite difficult to determine why it failed, leading to many days of debugging.
Actually, I should mention that our largest challenge currently is increasing the gas capacity per transaction with the NEAR developers who have made amazing progress. With the recent blockchain upgrade on NEAR, we are able to do roughly 2x more than we could before per transaction! This will only continue to improve as we believe we can make this even better.
Q: It's encouraging to hear that we are improving and reaching our goals. And it's happening at quite a fast pace. Since this session is aimed at developers, why do you think it's beneficial for them to build and deploy projects with us? Why are we a better choice? Why do you believe they will have a better experience with us?
A: To put it simply, read up on ETH 2.0 goals and why everyone is excited for them and how it would effectively solve many things in the Ethereum ecosystem. Now understand that exists -today- with gas prices and everything -in Ethereum- on Aurora. And a seamless trustless bridge experience.
It really is a no brainer to move on over. Its the same tools, same EVM (with improvements), cheaper, faster, more capacity, sharded.
Q: Before we open up this session for questions, are there any links/resources that you would like to share? Maybe something interesting from our Github? Any code snippets? Whatever you think may be particularly useful, if anything.
A: I never thought about that. I mean simply our world is here: https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/tree/develop in the develop branch of the EVM.
Another library of note which other projects also use is what we call "Sputnik EVM", now renamed simply as rust-blockchain EVM" https://github.com/rust-blockchain/evm of which both Michael Birch (@birchmd) and I are contributors to.
It is worth noting that we are working on compartmentalising the Engine so that we could effectively use it for other uses such as debugging transactions so that we do not have to go through opcodes by hand to figure out where our largest gas costs are, and where issues might arise in a transaction: https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/tree/develop/engine-standalone
Q: What is your vision of smart contracts v2.0? What are the natural evolution of smart contracts and EVM in next 5 years? What features do you anticipate?
A: Smart contracts future is in WASM, imo. The way that NEAR had done their contracts is quite beautiful. Its is incredibly seamless than other blockchains that also do WASM contracts, and thats speaking from experience! Previously, I had worked with Aleph Zero (I think they just went live?) in Substrate and it was truly a challenge and felt kind of awkward.
Q: Considering the pace of Solana ecosystem growing and other L1s do you plan to add more bridges in near future? Like, bridging Solana token standard + NFTs...and the same for other prominent L1s.
A: To other EVMs? I don't think it had been fully discussed internally, but I believe this may be a direction we will head to. No plans besides talks here and there about other EVMs.
Right now we are making the bridge and connection to ETH fully seamless. In theory, we could do something like a bridge to BSC and the relayer for that could charge gas in BSC. All in our single Aurora EVM.
Q: Do you consider adding subscription based access to remove the gas fees overhead for the users?
A: It's funny you bring that up, I had spoken to the CEO (Alex) about that earlier today. So, hypothetically there could be a relayer that say, you pay $500 by credit card to, and get access to unlimited transactions.
I don't believe that is on our radar, but anyone is able to spin up a relayer and provide that.
There is a potential that we may provide that too. I wouldn't say that we wouldn't look into that especially given we are having internal communications about that.
Q: I was playing a bit with Aurora and was a bit confused with the RPC architecture. As I understand the Aurora architecture, the only way to submit the new blocks to the Aurora mainnet is by using the relay.aurora account (according to mainnet.yml config https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-relayer/blob/master/config/mainnet.yaml). Will the Aurora be centralized around the main RPC that could only submit the new blocks? Will it be possible to submit new transactions via self-hosted RPC?
A: Its not centralised around just our relayer. Its possible today to host your own relayer. Internally, we do pay the NEAR gas fee, so other relayers would too need to pay the NEAR gas fee themselves. It just isn't convenient right now because we still need to add the functionality for relayers to SET their gas price.
Q: Love what you do with Aurora. Tech is great, but what about the user base? Is it hard for people to trust bridges and move funds over to Aurora? Do you see the bridge as a big turn off for users willing to buy an NFT or trade on L2 instead of L1?
A: Our bridge was built up to be totally trustless. Even we can not make any changes to it. There is no single account that has access to a large pot of funds which is privalent in other bridges. I don't know if I understand what you mean with the second part of this question.
Q: Can you talk about Aurora's future plans for NEAR interoperability?
A: Yeah, this is something that we want to do. I'm not sure if we can squeeze it in by the end of the year though. We currently have a high priority of launching the engine as a standalone service which hopefully will be completed by the end of next week, then gas fees set by relayers in whatever token after that.
Q: When can we expect to be able to pay transaction fees with ERC20? Does that mean I can pay tx fees with wNEAR and I don't even need to hold any Aurora ETH?
A: There is urgency to get this done. Internally all the work is there, but we just hard coded the gas fee to be 0 for now to incentivise people. Yes, you would be able to pay tx fees in wNEAR if the relayer accepts it.
Q: How are you approaching bridging of NFT-a? Will I be able to bridge Aurora native NFT-s to NEAR and Ethereum at some point?
A: Yes, at some point in the future you will be able to bridge assets to Ethereum. Not sure about NEAR, but should also be possible.
Q: Considering sharding capabilities of Near do you expect a big wave of people to come and test their apps in Aurora EVM before eth 2.0 migration? How do you plan to cope with potential load?
A: We do expect a surge of people to come over and try out Aurora before ETH 2.0. We are mostly tackling the load by scaling our relayer and will be implemented development keys shortly. Right now anyone can use it and we have had some "fun" because of that. I do fully believe that NEAR can handle the transactions though.
Q: Are there any recommendations for developers that want to deploy on Aurora? Any errors/misconfiguration that you noticed previously? We already have some projects running on Aurora. How has the experience been with them from the developer standpoint?
A: Most projects have run into gas issues, but I believe they are all unblocked right now. There still is an edge case or two, but its been quiet since the NEAR protocol upgrade. The rest of the issues had mainly been on bridging, but I don't see those kinds of questions. The ones that make it our way are mostly gas related, then we end up going through the tx opcode by opcode to see where it fails. Lengthly process, but won't be an issue soon.
Q: How is the load right now? Do you see a lot of people bridging their ETH to Aurora, can you maybe share some stats?
A: Load right now is quite bareable. I think the bridge has roughly $130 million in assets right now. That certainly couldn't gone up more. We do have a stats page although it may be missing some data and be outdated. Anytime we get overloaded, we just increase our overhead 10 fold 😄 Luckily we got some of the best infrastructure guys that are able to fix that.
Q: Why are we not having projects pop-up on the ecosystem? Are developers facing problems launching or developing their projects on Aurora?
A: This is more of a personal opinion, but I think a lot of people on Ethereum got fed up and split onto Avalanche. I don't believe its because developers are facing problems launching right now. If so, I would love to know so that we can work on fixing that. We don't exactly believe in that philosophy, which is why we stick with ETH as our base. We are incredibly proud that we have done so. In other words, we want to compliment the ETH ecosystem. Not compete against it.
Q: I'm a very big believer in the Aurora ecosystem that's why I am putting every effort into building the ecosystem. Hope to see more developers incentives from Aurora. I run the Aurora Community group based on pushing Aurora and I would love to be able to speak on the Incentives to developers.
A: We will have a great deal of incentives :). We just are not there yet. The bridge in the way it is now, I don't see how it could be possible though. Perhaps end of Q2, and we got everything running well and our goals are complete, maybe it'll pop up on the radar. I'm unsure. I don't know what is public about the incentives yet, and it would come down to the IDO Aurora holders. Not Aurora Labs itself. So, while we could say "We want to do X" it would simply be a proposal, and everyone votes on if they want that, or not. So you'll hear the word "maybe" a lot, because at the end of the day, it needs to be voted on. IDOs are truly a community project. I'm so sick of projects that simply listen to the almighty omnibenevolent team to be honest. I'm sure that the community heads will certainly make the process to initiate a vote known, and the website team likely will include the FAQs on that process. They are really good at that.
Q: Do you plan to reduce finality time for transactions? Do you have a room for optimizations in that regard?
A: We are limited by NEAR's protocol
Q: I know we joined Hackathons in the past. If you have any feedback/observations about it, please share (code wise, not incentives wise). It may be useful for future contests.
A: I think we learnt what not to do. The last hackathon none of us really had time to actually sit down and thoroughly go through possible problems. We ended up choosing some really hard issues that nobody ended up tackling :'(. I think it was related to calling NEAR contracts in Aurora?
Q: Would it be possible for me to cover all transaction fee costs of users interacting with my contracts? How would that function technically? I have to run a relay? Maybe as an incentive for users to join the product etc.
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The Dawn of Missionary Societies
by Adriaan C. Neele
In a 1739 sermon, published posthumously as A History of the Work of Redemption, Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) wrote:
It may be hoped that then many of the[m] will be divines, and that excellent books will be published in Africa, in Ethiopia, in Turkey—and not only very learned men, but others that are more ordinary men, shall then be very knowing in religion, Isaiah 32:3–4.
In this passage, Edwards clearly demonstrates a global interest in the "propagation of the gospel," turning his attention to China, the East Indies, and South America as well. Edwards could not have foreseen the fulfillment of these words in the next century—the great century of Protestant missions. In fact, Edwards' words and works would be carried around the globe to the encouragement of many missionaries, missionary societies, and mission publications endeavors.
Missionaries of the nineteenth century include well-known men and women, such as William Carey (1761–1834), the British missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, and social reformer who spent decades serving in India; Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), the American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary who served in Burma for thirty-seven years; Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), the British missionary to China for more than fifty years and founder of the China Inland Mission (1865); Lottie Moon (1840–1912), the Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly forty years of her life working in China; and Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), Presbyterian evangelical missionary for the Anglican Church Missionary Society to India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur, serving India for fifty-five years. Their commitment to the gospel, missions work, and the countries they served is moving, and it has motivated many to follow in their footsteps.
But what about the hundreds of missionaries whose names haven been forgotten? These include men such as the Frenchmen Eugène Casalis (1812–91), Thomas Arbousset (1810–77), and Adolphe Mabille (1836–94) in the service of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) to Basutoland, today the Kingdom of Lesotho. They worked tiresomely for more than sixty years combined as translators of the first Bible in the Sesotho language, writing the first English-Sesotho Oxford-published dictionary. They were founders of elementary schools, a theological seminary (Morija Theological Seminary), a newspaper (Leselinyana la Basotho, "The Small Light of the Basotho"), a book press, an indigenous church (Lesotho Evangelical Church), and a self-propagating movement, and ultimately they laid the groundwork for a nation, which is still going strong today. There is Mary Slessor (1848–1915), the Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria who promoted women's rights and protected native children while spreading the gospel. There is William Whiting Borden (1887–1913), a Yale graduate who studied under J. Gresham Machen at Princeton Theological Seminary. Borden was a wealthy philanthropist and missionary candidate who died in Egypt en route to the Gansu province in China to work among the Muslims. He is interred at the American Cemetery in Cairo, next to Dr. Andrew Watson, who served for more than fifty years at the American Presbyterian mission station in the Middle East, alongside the more well-known Samuel Zwemer (1867–1952), the "Apostle to Islam." Furthermore, what about the many neglected educators, administrators, and organizers of local mission stations? These include men such as Christian Wallmann (1811–65) of the Rhenish Missionary Society (1799) and Hans Peter Hallbeck (1784–1840), the Swedish-born Moravian missionary who worked in the Valley of Grace of the Cape region in South Africa.
It is important to note that nineteenth-century evangelical missionary societies were major disseminators of gospel missions work and religious literature.
In one way or another, these men and women followed God's call through prayer, revival, and missionary societies. For example, the Scottish awakenings of the 1790s were partially prompted when John Erskine (1720–1803) republished in 1784 Edwards' Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer for the Revival of Religion and the Advancement of Christ's Kingdom (1747) to promote revival prayer. The Scottish evangelical revival, furthermore, was the impetus not only to the founding of Scottish Missionary Society (1796), but it also showed the important coexistence of missionary societies and publications of religious works in the service of missions work at home and abroad. As such, it is important to note that nineteenth-century evangelical missionary societies were major disseminators of gospel missions work and religious literature.
Illustrative is the republication, translation, and distribution of Edwards' A History of the Work of Redemption. The British-based Religious Tract Society (1799) reprinted the book multiple times. The organizers of this tract society belonged to the same group of evangelicals that founded the London Missionary Society (1795). The latter provided book allowances to their overseas missionaries, such as the catechist George Gogerly, who established a library with ten books in India, three of which were works by Edwards and included A History of the Work of Redemption. Moreover, the American Tract Society (1825) published and distributed between 1838 and 1875 more than sixty thousand copies of the book. The society supported missionary printing houses such as the American Mission Press in Beirut. The translation of the book in Dutch (1776), furthermore, reflected the growing mission consciousness in the Dutch Republic that contributed to the founding of the Dutch Missionary Society (1797). As the First Great Awakening of the eighteenth century gave rise to missions endeavors, so the revivals in Scotland and the Second Great Awakening in America gave rise to the founding of numerous voluntary societies in the service of missions. Finally, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1810) contributed to the Arabic edition of A History of the Work of Redemption (1863), published in Beirut and distributed throughout the Middle East from Cairo.
These missions endeavors of the English-speaking world were mirrored by their French counterparts. The founders of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society became involved in establishing the Religious Society of Books (1836) for the distribution of religious publications. Works by Richard Baxter, John Bunyan, John Calvin, J.C. Ryle, and Charles Spurgeon were translated into French, published, and distributed in France and in places such as Lesotho and Oceania. As such, the Religious Society of Books was solely responsible for the translation of A History of the Work of Redemption in French (1854). Its publication, though, was in the context of the French revival movement and the founding of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (1821), whose motto and aim was "Not where Christ was named" (Rom. 15:20). Edwards' works were not unfamiliar to missionaries and missionary societies in early nineteenth-century France. The preface of the 1823 French translation of Humble Attempt demonstrates a historical awareness of the Scottish revival of the late 1800s, so influential to the rise of missions work and missionary societies.
These endeavors of gospel proclamation and publication of many works of "evangelical revival" by missionary societies, and through its practice of Bible translation, characteristically makes "the recipient culture the true and final locus of the proclamation, so that the religion arrives without the presumption of cultural rejection," as Lamin Sanneh said. The ambiguous relationship to European colonialism of these missionary societies—and missionaries, thereby—must not be overlooked, however. And so, the adventurous character of the missionaries cannot go unnoticed. For instance,Carey's reading of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd, together with the journals of the explorer James Cook gave rise to his deep concern of gospel propagation and proclamation. This deep concern was ecumenical, as expressed in an inaugural sermon at the founding ceremony of the London Missionary Society: "Our design is not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other form of Church Order and Government . . . but [to send] the Glorious Gospel of the blessed God [abroad]." Many missionary societies would echo this sentiment, which at times created strenuous relationships with the established church.
While Carey shared his burden for missions work, he was reminded by Dr. John Ryland, "Young man, sit down; when God is pleased to convert the heathen world, He will do it without your help or mine." It was Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), a fervent promoter of missionary work and cofounder of the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Heathen (1792), however, who encouraged Carey and recommended him to pursue his calling, with the result that the "father of modern missions" was convinced to say: "Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God." When the Reformed Church in America was initially reluctant to support the seminarians Zwemer and James Cantine (1861–1940), they founded the American Arabian Mission, "organized 1889, undenominational." However, the driving force of Zwemer's missiology was his all-encompassing vision of God, that God has created the entire world that it should be, as John Calvin said, the "theater of his glory by the spread of his Gospel," and "the chief end of missions is not the salvation of men but the glory of God"—a thought shared by many in the heyday of nineteenth-century Protestant missions.
Dr. Adriaan C. Neele is director of the doctoral program and professor of historical theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Mich., and an ordained minister in the Heritage Reformed Congregations. He is author or editor of several books, including a monograph on the life and work of Petrus van Mastricht (1630–1706).
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A former Ohio sheriff who allegedly made himself rich after pocketing almost $100,000 in bribes from drug dealers and others while in office has been indicted on several federal charges.
Samuel Crish, 54, of Delphos, Ohio, is facing charges of bribery, extortion and making false statements, the Associated Press reports. Crish wrung the hefty sum out of five people between 2012 and 2016 while he was serving as the sheriff of Allen County. Crish is also accused of giving special treatment in return for money.
The sheriff was allowed to resign in January 2017 after an FBI raid on his office in September 2016. FBI Special Agent Stephen Anthony said that Crish made his situation worse (I guess) by lying to the agency.
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The Blade details Crish's alleged misconduct as follows:
According to the indictment unsealed Monday against Mr. Crish, in June, 2012, he asked an unnamed person for $8,000 to cover medical bills. The person gave him the cash in an alley behind the sheriff's office and later applied for a job as a nurse at the Allen County jail.
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The NFL app for Apple TV is a decent app, but at best, is only an adjunct to televised games. Unlike other sports app offerings, the NFL app doesn't have any of the slick interactive features. You can watch free clips and previously broadcast games (if you purchase a Game Pass subscription for $49.99). If you have the right cable provider, you can possibly watch select games live, however, they don't support Comcast, the largest cable company. The app has potential, but it's ruined by exclusive deals and limitations. For those looking to research teams and watch commentary shows, the app may prove useful.
DIRECTV has created their own football app — NFL Sunday Ticket. This app allows DIRECTV customers to watch out-of-market regular season NFL games on Sunday. If they had any more rules, they could create their own religion. Unfortunately, since football season is over, I was unable to even browse this app to write about features. The app loaded, showed a Chevy commercial and then a displayed a "see you next season" message.
Overall, if you're looking for a sport that has embraced technology and supports the full potential of TV devices, look elsewhere. Football is lagging behind the curve and is mired in a web of contracts and deals. Unlike so many other industries, they haven't yet figured out how to profit in the digital age. It seems as though protecting their current business partners, TV networks and cable/dish providers, is stalling their digital strategy. If you're a football fan, forget about Apple TV or any TV device. Just stick with cable, satellite or rabbit ears.
NBA App for Apple TV
Basketball, being less popular than football, also has less of the wheeling and dealing that limits adoption of new technology. The NBA app for Apple TV actually allows users to watch games, if they pay for a NBA League Pass subscription. At $99.99 customers can purchase a League Pass for one season. This subscription allows viewing of regular season live and on-demand games for all 30 teams. If you just want to follow one team, the Team Pass only costs $59.99. Both subscriptions are subject to blackout restrictions.
The NBA app is refreshingly simple. It's not loaded with myriad clips of talking heads. Instead, the app is oriented toward watching live games and following statistics. The app's Games screen offers an innovative calendar-based user interface for browsing game schedules. The Standings screen allows users to browse stats. For those who can't always see the game live, the settings screen allows users to hide scores in order to avoid spoilers.
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If you're like me, your life is super busy and it's a challenge to get the important stuff done rather than just moving from one "fire" to the next.
One way I solve this problem is by stepping away for a short time each month to review my long term goals and create a monthly vision board.
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The people of Thule in northern Greenland are the last vestige of the Inuit culture, the only survivors of an ancient way of life that has disappeared in Canada and Alaska. Avoiding their extinction is the goal of SOS Thule, a project led by Ramon Larramendi (manager of Tasermiut South Greenland Expeditions), which will take shape through the Inuit Climate Change Patrol.
In Thule today sled dogs are still used and the inhabitants go in search of their livelihood in skin-lined kayaks, but these people are between 45 and 50 years old and the next generation aren't continuing in these traditions… Are we witnessing the last dynasty of the Kings of Thule? This fear, not to mention alarm, which Larramendi glimpsed during the Three Years Across the Arctic Expedition between 1990 and 1993, is the germ of the current SOS Thule Project: "Young people are going to work in Denmark. In Thule there are only administrative jobs available and these pioneers, who are somehow the soul of Greenland, are in danger of extinction".
Inuit Climate Change Patrol… Is a circuit of 3,000 km by dog sled, driven by the Thule Inuit themselves in the company of a team of scientists who, year after year during the spring, will tour northern Greenland doing checks on the state of the ice sheet and other effects of climate change (fauna and biological) that is more dramatic in this region of the world than any other. The patrol will depart from Thule to cross the ice to Cape Morris Jesup, the northernmost point of the Americas. The return will be direct via the Inlandis or inland ice of Greenland.
Obviously, the Inuit Climate Change Patrol will use ancient techniques still used today in Thule to travel and keep warm, a true "living museum" which could become a focus of global attention. The aim is that the project, authentic in form and objectives, is to communicate through the social networks and to raise the awareness of climate change and place this area and these people on the world map.
As a result of its operation, the Inuit Climate Change Patrol will involve a number of people in jobs related to traditional techniques, but the goal is to generate a new type of tourism: that the people of Thule, using this as a basis, will organize trips in the area, longer or shorter, but with very marked principles that preserve this traditional spirit and involving growing numbers of local people, allowing young people to take over.
"My idea is that under the auspices of this Inuit Patrol a very specific type of tourism can be generated, fully aimed at maintaining their traditional lifestyle, in allowing this place, from where all the epic expeditions to the North Pole in the past set out, to be a small outpost of Inuit culture and have a future, which they have't got at the moment. Only the past and the present, but no view of the future".
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I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. Not yet ready to part ways with the South, I studied philosophy at Texas Christian University, working mainly with >Blake Hestir and graduating summa cum laude in 2008. I then studied at the University of Connecticut, where I earned my Ph.D. in April 2014 under the direction of Michael Lynch. I also spent part of the summer of 2013 as a Visiting Researcher at the Northern Institute of Philosophy. In August 2016, I completed a two-year postdoc associated with Pluralisms, a project directed by Nikolaj Pedersen devoted to investigating logical, ontological, and alethic pluralism and the connections between them. I then worked as an Assistant Professor at Yonsei University's Underwood International College from 2016-2019.
Along the way, I've been an active member of:
The Prisma Global Research Network, an international research partnership between Veritas, the Cogito Research Centre (Bologna), the Institut für Philosophie (Bonn), the University of Connecticut Philosophy Department, and the University of Waikato Philosophy Department
The Veritas Research Center, a philosophy research center based at Underwood International College
The Pluralisms Global Research Network (funded by the Korean National Research Foundation from 2013-2016)
The Relativisms Global Research Network (funded by the Korean National Research Foundation from 2016-2019).
I'm now living a fair distance from all of Storrs, Fort Worth, and Seoul–in Hamilton, New Zealand. There, I work as a Lecturer in Philosophy at The University of Waikato.
At UCONN Commencement with Michael Lynch, 2014


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Four years ago, MyMobileWorkers was a small business whose finance function was performed by management staff in their spare time. Since joining Danbro in the summer of 2014, the company has grown exponentially. Their employee roster has doubled, as has their turnover; and their finance department? Well, 'thanks to Danbro, that's all taken care of.'
We recently caught up with Graham Whistance, Managing Director of MyMobileWorkers, at the company's offices in Liverpool. He kicked off by discussing life before Danbro.
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Four years ago, MyMobileWorkers was a small business whose finance function was performed by management staff in their spare time. Since joining #Danbro in the summer of 2014, the company has grown exponentially.
"Before we switched to Danbro, it was a combination of myself and other unqualified members of the management team who took care of the financial side of the business, week in, week out," he said. "Finding the time to do things was a real struggle, and we needed someone to remove that burden and bring much more professionalism and support to the finance function."
"Danbro have really helped us move that process forward"
"Danbro took the time to come in and show what they could do for us. What they presented looked and sounded like exactly what we wanted, and it has been that way ever since," he added. "The service Danbro provides includes things like processing payroll, managing accounts, weekly bank reconciliation, and weekly debtors and creditors' runs. We've also been able to completely remove paper from our finance team, so no sending or receiving paper invoices, for example. Everything is automated and electronic now, and Danbro have really helped us move that process forward."
As part of Danbro's award-winning accountancy service, each company we work with is assigned a personal accountant to look after their financial affairs on a first-hand basis. With MyMobileWorkers, Accountant Wilfred Rhodes is the specialist who takes care of their finance function, as well as 'chipping in' with the occasional sporting success.
"The regular visits from Danbro make a huge difference. Wilf is our point of contact and, as far as we're concerned, he's one of the team."
"Everyone here knows him well and he interacts as though he's a full time member of staff. He's a face in the business, not just a name, and our customers are familiar with him too, which helps. I think Wilf has grown into his position quite nicely from our point of view; he comes out on our Christmas do, and even won the golf tournament that we held last year!"
"That personal touch is really important to us."
As Graham puts it, 'we outsource our whole finance function to Danbro'; but what is his impression of the outsourcing process now?
"Outsourcing is always a concern, particularly with something as important as finance – if it doesn't work, you've put all your eggs in one basket. But with Danbro, we get a high quality of people who understand our business and behave like our personal finance team. They effectively pay for themselves."
"We're comfortable with how they do things. They know what they're doing, have a great approach and, what we've found is, if you like doing things a certain way, they're more than happy to incorporate that too. By using Quickbooks, for example, following a recommendation by Danbro, we can see what's going on and I can manage more by extension, rather than getting involved in the detail myself."
"As our company has grown, so too have the services that Danbro provide. From a professional point of view, we no longer have to worry about the finance side of the business at all; it's boxed off, up-to-date, and, if any new things happen, Wilf is more than qualified and he's well supported by the team behind him."
And, if Graham was to describe Danbro in three words?
"Knowledgeable."
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Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) on Friday called upon members of the public to be vigilant and report Telecommunication companies and Mobile Phones dealers, who violate consumers' rights for legal action.
The call was made during marking of World Consumers Day, which took place at Communications House, in Kampala.
"It's a fundamental human right for a consumer to have access to basic communication services at reasonable prices. Government and subsequently UCC have a responsibility to ensure that services are made available to all persons, by adopting the right policies and that licenses issued ensure necessary roll out of services to all underserved areas and populations", said UCC Consumer Affairs Manager Pamela Ankunda.
She advised telecom services consumers to report cases, where their Airtime or Data bundles are stolen under conditions not specified in their contractual agreements with the service providers.
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Isaac Balinakiyingi, the Executive Secretary, Uganda Consumer Protection, said majority Ugandan don't know their consumer rights and as such, fall victims of fraudulent telecom dealers, who cheat on their hard earned money.
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Pope Francis: 'No justification' for Paris attacks
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Pope Francis condemned Friday night's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris in a phone interview with the Italian Episcopal Conference's TV station, The New York Times reports.
"There is no justification for such things, neither religious nor human, this is not human," he said. "It is difficult to understand such things, done by human beings."
At least 127 people have died in the series of attacks, and about 80 of 300 hospitalized are reportedly in critical condition. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, and French President François Hollande has also attributed the deadly violence to the terrorist group.
Francis joined a host of world leaders in supporting France, including President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and government heads in Belgium, Burundi, Canada, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, and Spain.


Final project for Vizo High School in Graphic Design, 2011.
The challenge: design a product and a company image for a topic relating to what we believe to be Israeli. I chose the Israeli barbecue ("mangal") culture and manipulated its grotesque nature, (bringing out the MAN in MANgal) turning it into the face of the company in the form of a bald, sweaty man, with rude phrases and slogans.
I also physically created a product, a mobile BBQ for use on Israel's Independence Day, a popular day for using the "mangal" in Israel. Its shape resembles that of the the Star of David.
I received a grade of 100 of both the physical and graphic parts of the project, and was chosen as the Outstanding Student in Graphic Design for the year.


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As Farm Disasters Increase in Scope, Congress to Consider Increased Spending on Agricultural Research
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Groundbreaking legislation welcomed by broad coalition
Washington DC (September 10, 2019)—New legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) would mandate a budget increase for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's (USDA) four primary research agencies. Presently, private sector spending on food and agricultural research is nearly three times the amount invested by the federal government despite the funding sources being equivalent as recently as 2004.
The America Grows Act would authorize a 5 percent inflation-adjusted annual increase for the next five years in the following USDA agencies:
National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
"We have to spend billions every year to compensate farmers for damages from a wide variety of disasters," said Thomas Grumbly, President of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation, "but the food that might have been grown is lost for good. Investing in the research that makes their operations more resilient, productive and efficient will improve farmers' bottom line. We can't solve today's problems—or tomorrow's—with yesterday's innovations."
The America Grows Act has been embraced by a broad coalition of stakeholders including farmers, scientists, educators, consumers, ecologists, and veterinarians—80 organizations in all. The bill was modeled after the successful 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016, which spurred additional funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Food and agriculture remain a pillar of the U.S. economy, accounting for nearly $1 trillion of our GDP, 1 in 10 jobs, and a significant contribution to our nation's trade balance. The public return on investment for agricultural research is estimated at $20 to $1. Yet U.S. funding in this area has declined in real dollars since 2003 while other forms of domestic research have risen dramatically.
House Subcommittee Hearing on Agriculture Research Innovation Highlights Breakthroughs and the Path to Increasing Productivity and Prosperity
Representatives Rodney Davis (IL-13) and Suzan DelBene (WA-1), the chair and ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, should be commended for showcasing science innovations achieved by our nation's agricultural colleges and universities.
SoAR Foundation Announces Scientific Advisory Committee Assembled to Strengthen Agricultural Research
The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation today announce the formation of its Scientific Advisory Committee, an eight-member panel led by Vicki Chandler, PhD, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI. The Committee's primary mission is to strengthen agricultural research and raise its profile within the broader science community. Special focus will be placed on the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, the nation's primary source of competitively awarded funding within the US Department of Agriculture.
Join us at Congressional briefings on Retaking the Field, March 2nd
In collaboration with eleven partnering universities, the SoAR Foundation is pleased to announce that "Retaking the Field: Strengthening the Science of Farm and Food Production" will be released on March 2, 2017.


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